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So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.
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Solomon gave Hiram twenty thousand measures of wheat for food to his household, and twenty measures of pure oil: thus gave Solomon to Hiram year by year.
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Yahweh gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.
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King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
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He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.
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Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains;
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besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
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The king commanded, and they hewed out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.
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Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.